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Essential Information on Organ Theft from Falun Gong Practitioners in China The Epoch Times | April 25 2006 Falun Gong practitioners are being killed for their organs in a systematic, deliberate fashion, in labor and concentration camps across China. This is the message that Dr. Wenyi Wang wanted the world to know when she broke journalist protocols and stopped Hu Jintao's speech at the Whitehouse on April 20. While the world's media has focused on her act of civil disobedience, the accumulating evidence pointing towards atrocities, which led Wang to her desperate act, has thus far been largely ignored – with a few significant exceptions. On March 9 The Epoch Times broke the story that at a provincial hospital in northeast China, doctors were harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit. Two key witnesses initially came forward to reveal the existence of the Sujiatun Concentration Camp in Shenyang. One of the witnesses, "Peter," is a Chinese investigative journalist who worked for a Japanese TV station. The second, "Annie," was a staff member at the hospital, whose neurosurgeon husband extracted the corneas of practitioners there for three years. When, being tormented, he finally confessed his crimes to his wife, he said, "You have no idea of my agony. These Falun Gong practitioners were alive." Both witnesses fled to the United States and are risking their lives to expose "a most tragic, inhumane crime." After nearly three weeks of the Chinese regime's silence, a very long time to not respond to allegations of crimes against humanity, the regime issued a statement. On March 28, it denied the existence of the Sujiatun camp. By this time, all remaining Falun Gong practitioners had been removed and the crimes covered up, said the two sources. On March 27, just a day before the denials, the PRC Ministry of Health published its "Interim Regulation for Human Organ Transplant Practice," which would presumably restrict this sort of organ theft. The directive will take effect until July 1. On March 31, a third witness came forward, identifying himself as a veteran military doctor. He confirmed the ghastly crimes in Sujitun, identified 36 other concentration camps, and predicted that it would be "useless" to enter Sujiatun to investigate now "because it is easy to transfer several thousand people" to some of the other camps. Accordingly, the U.S. government found nothing unusual when the CCP invited officials to tour the facilities on April 14. The following day, The Epoch Times urgently called upon the U.S. government to go to China and "Dig Deeper and Demand Answers" to potentially save thousands of lives. The need for haste is based on several important factors. The first is that Sujitun appears to not be an isolated case. The military doctor stated that "Sujiatun is but one of 36 similar concentration camps all over China." The largest camp, he said, is in Jilin Province and it houses over 120,000 prisoners, large numbers of whom are Falun Gong practitioners. In a press conference in Washington D.C. on April 20, "Annie" also called Sujiatun "the tip of the iceberg" and advised investigators to look for evidence in labor camps and police stations where Falun Gong practitioners are detained. If inspections are done properly, she said, it would be "impossible to not find evidence of such massive killing." This investigation might also look into very obvious questions such as how it's possible that 3,000 liver transplants were conducted in China in 2003, when only 78 such operations were performed between 1991 and 1998. The World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG) has found that hospitals across China are telling patients to come quickly to receive new organs because the current large supply of good organs will dry up by the end of April. In recorded telephone conversations with numerous hospitals, WOIPFG researchers and reporters from Sound of Hope Radio found staff openly admitting that the organs were from living people, including from Falun Gong practitioners. All of these sources point towards a terrible atrocity taking place in China today. To genuinely investigate the situation, a special team of international investigators, called the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) was formed on April 18. It's mission is "to go to every Chinese labor camp, jail, detention center, and hospital where Falun Gong practitioners have been detained" and independently determine the veracity of the claims. ---------------------------------------------------
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